A coach at an Algiers elementary school was arrested Wednesday for having sex with a student, court records show. According to court documents filed in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, police arrested Frank Norris, a coach at Martin Behrman Charter School, after a girl, who is now a former student of the school, told detectives that she had engaged in sexual intercourse with him several times over the past year.

According to a spokesman for the Algiers Charter School Association, Norris was employed as an academic interventionist at the school and was also a coach.

Frank Norris, 23, was booked on Wednesday with two counts of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile for allegedly having sex with a student at an Algiers elementary school. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office

Police were first notified of the situation when the victim's mother contacted police Wednesday and told them that, through reading her daughter's diary, she had found that her daughter had been sexually involved with Norris over the past year.

The age of the victim -- who was a student at the school last year -- is not known and the Times-Picayune does not name alleged victims of sexual assaults.

After speaking with the mother, detectives interviewed the daughter that same day and she told them that during the softball season at the school last year, Norris, 23, asked her to come into the school's band room with him one day. The girl told police that Norris led her into the room before first taking off his clothing and then disrobing her, at which point the two engaged in sexual intercourse.

The girl told police that Norris told her not to tell anyone what had happened between them.

Over the following year, the victim told police, Norris and her were sexually involved several times, the last time being Jan. 23.

On that date, the victim told police, Norris stopped her as she was walking to a party about 2 p.m., when he pulled over and the two of them proceeded to have sex inside of his truck.

Police picked up Norris at the school Wednesday afternoon and brought him in for questioning at which point he was arrested and booked.

Norris was booked with two counts of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile, which is what statutory rape is called in the state of Louisiana.

Norris is being held in lieu of a $15,000 bond, court records show.

Martin Behrman Charter School, which earned a 'B' grade last year, is one of the city's higher-performing pre-K-8 schools and part of the eight-school Algiers Charter Schools Association network on the West Bank.

A statement from the Algiers Charter School
Association said that after learning of Norris' arrest he was immediately placed
on suspension without pay until the case is adjudicated.